Frank Darabont · 1994 · road

Frank Darabont's 1994 film of the Stephen King novella. Wrongly convicted of murder, banker Andy Dufresne spends nineteen years in Maine's Shawshank prison quietly tunnelling toward freedom - and the night he finally crawls out, he digs up a buried promise near Buxton and vanishes south. His friend Red, paroled at last, follows the trail across the country to a Pacific beach at Zihuatanejo.

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   Shawshank

   Andy Dufresne serves two life sentences in Shawshank State Prison in Maine, where over nineteen years he quietly wins small freedoms - and, unseen, tunnels through his cell wall a little more each night.

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   Fort Hancock

   Freed by parole, old Red boards a bus and rides west and south to the Texas border town of Fort Hancock, following the instructions Andy left buried under a black rock in a Buxton hayfield.

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   Zihuatanejo

   On a warm stretch of the Mexican Pacific coast the two friends find each other again - Andy patching up an old boat, the ocean with no memory at their backs, and nothing but open horizon ahead.